Later that night once Mary was asleep, Dean and I laid on our bed. We were both in our boxers and I was laying on my back and Dean was laying on his side tracing random patterns over my lower abdomen. "I can't believe you're finally pregnant." Dean whispered against my neck, "I know, after all the trying." I whispered back. "When are we going to start telling people?" Dean asked, "I was thinking we could have a small Halloween party here like a week before when my heat would be… Gabe and I have an idea how to break the news for him, but I think I could break it the same way." I said and we fell asleep.
"Really Gabe, this is your idea of letting everyone know?" Dean asked eyeing our matching t-shirts. "Of course! It's brilliant, it's almost Halloween and these shirts are hilarious!" Gabe said gesturing to our t-shirts that look like x-ray's of our insides with our ribs and everything, then towards the bottom there's a baby skeleton. "I agree, I think it's cute." I smiled at Dean, "now people are going to start arriving, you already told Mary to stay quiet about the babies right? I asked Dean handing Gabriel his zip up sweatshirt to hide his t-shirt and forming baby bump and zipping up mine.
"Yes, I think she'll stay quiet." Dean said and then the doorbell rang. Dean came back to the kitchen with Jimmy, Amelia and Claire in tow; "alright give me my niece!" I said after a quick hug to them both and I took Claire out of Amelia's arms. "Dean brought down Mary's old baby swing so we can put Claire in it later." I said rocking the baby a little; and deep down I was getting excited because I would be able to have this feeling again. Charlie and Gilda arrived next and lets just say Charlie was more than excited to see Claire, "Cas hand her over! You've already met her." Charlie said reaching her arms out so I handed the baby over. "Mama." Mary said quite grumpily tugging on my pant leg "what baby girl?" I asked looking down and saw a frowning little girl.
"Aww, is someone feeling left out?" I teased picking her up and buried her face in my neck. Dean came back in with Bobby Ellen and John, "what's wrong with Mary?" Dean asked coming up behind me and I felt him push Mary's hair back. I turned around, "she's feeling left out because of the baby." I said "hmm, makes you wonder a little about when, well you know…" Dean said quietly looking around to see if anyone heard them. "Dean! Stop making goo-goo eyes at your man and serve this chili you've been yammerin' bout!" Bobby grumped earning a smack in the head from Ellen, "alright, don't get your panties in a wad old man." Dean chuckled and there was a faint 'idjit' from the dining room. I walked into the dining room and tried to put Mary in her high chair and Mary freaked out.
"No! NO NO NO! MAMA!" Mary wailed starting to cry and kicking her feet. "Jesus Mary, okay okay." I said and picked her back up and set her on my lap and she hid her face in my chest. "What was that about?" John asked "I think she feels left out because of all the attention Claire's getting, she's not used to another baby around." I said rubbing her back and glanced nervously at Dean. Dinner went quickly and some what difficult with Mary still refusing to sit in her high chair, once everyone was done eating and the table was cleared Gabe asked, "Cassie? Can I talk to you for a moment?" "Of course." I said putting Mary on Dean's lap and let out a relieved sigh when she didn't panic.
Gabe and I went into the office where we knew that it would be far enough from everyone so the wouldn't hear, "I think now is the time to tell everyone…" Gabe said unzipping his jacket and I followed. Gabe walked in first and I quickly went and stood behind Dean hiding my shirt for now. Everyone was busy talking so they didn't notice us come back into the room; then suddenly Charlie yelled out, "what the hell!? Gabe! You-your shirt!" Everyone stopped talking and looked at Gabriel, "dude, what?!" Charlie was still confused. "Surprise?" Gabe smiled and put his hand on his stomach which pressed the shirt down more and you could see the small bump.
"Oh my god! How far are you?" Charlie still asking all the questions and stood up to go give him a hug, "Uh, two months." Gabe said and accepted hugs from everyone else. "Dean, Cassie, Amelia, Jimmy and our other siblings knew right as I found out." Gabe said and I couldn't stop smiling, I was happy for him and I stepped away from behind Dean so they could see my shirt also. "That's great Gabe, congratulations." John said and then turned to look at Dean, "how are you guys coming along with trying?" John asked, "don't know, you'll have to ask Cas." Dean said tilting his head over to me "okay? Cas ho-" John started to ask but then stopped and just stared at my shirt. "Really!?" John said and smiled and I nodded my head, "I'm almost a month along." I smiled.
"Oh my god, it's like baby nation here!" Charlie squealed and gave me a hug. "That's why you guys have been acting so weird at the bakery." Gilda said "weird? How was I acting weird?" Gabe asked, "well, you haven't been trying to steal all the sweets and you've cut back on the coffee intake." Charlie explained "and Cas! That's why you've been coming in after 9! Because of the morning sickness! Oh god, why did we not figure this out Gilda?!" Charlie gushed. The rest of the night was spent talking about babies.
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When Halloween came around I put my shirt back on and Dean had on his favorite Batman shirt, Mary was dressed like a dragonfly, and we even had a little pirate hat for Squirt . We had Missouri take a quick picture of us so we could send it to Sam and Jess, "oh Mary aren't you the cutest! And I'm so happy for you two!" Missouri said once the picture was taken, "thank you Missouri." I said. "Okay bug, ready to go get some candy?" Dean asked bouncing Mary on his hip, "yes!" she squealed and Dean put her in the stroller. An hour later and a bag full of candy, we returned home with Mary passed out in her stroller. "Go put the candy in the kitchen and I'll put Mary to bed." I said unstrapping and carried her up the stairs.
I was sitting on the bed in my pj's reading when Dean finally came in, I put my book away and pushed my glasses up "how much candy did you eat already?" I asked "what? I didn't eat any. I'm not one of those parent's who eat their kids' candy." Dean said with his ears turning red, "uh huh." I smiled "just hurry up and come to bed so we can send this picture to Sam and Jess." A few minutes later Dean was in bed and I sent the picture with the caption 'Happy Halloween from your 4 favorite Winchesters and Squirt!' "I really do like this picture." I said looking at it on my phone. "I'm going to make it my background." I smiled and set it right as my phone started ringing and Sam's picture ID came up I answered it and put it on speaker.
"Sammy! How's it goin?!" Dean greeted him "good, but Cas you're pregnant?! That's awesome man, congrats." Sam said and you could hear the smile in his voice. "Congrats you guys!" Jess's voice came through the speaker, "thanks, yeah we're pretty excited." I said "how far along are you?" Jess asked. "Just barely over a month. Gabriel is two months along." I said "Gabe's pregnant too?!" Sam shouted into the phone, "yeah, it's a long story but he's excited." Dean replied, "jesus. We need to keep in contact better." Sam said, "yeah, you do Sasquatch. Have you even talked to dad recently? Or Bobby and Ellen?" Dean asked "no, we've been so busy it seems like whenever we get a chance to call it would be too late."
"Yeah, I guess that's true." Dean mumbled "by the way Cas, Mary's costume is absolutely adorable!" Jess said, "thank you. Missouri actually found it when she went shopping one day." I said "it fit her nicely and she really liked it." An hour later we said our goodbyes and I snuggled closer to Dean, "don't forget tomorrow Gabe and I have an appointment at the clinic." I said after a yawn. "Are you sure you don't want me to go?" Dean asked wrapping his arms around me, "I'm sure, Gabe doesn't like going alone and it's just a check up. I'll stop by the shop after and let you know how it went." I said and quickly fell asleep.
*Babies babies babies! :) What do you think Gabe should have? I don't know yet so let me know what you think! And by the way, this story is also on Ao3 and I'm going to put pictures of Mary's costume and when Gabe and Cas's shirt looks like on there if you want to check that out.